Extrav. News

Extrav. Is Here Again! Apart from the fact that as yet we have no script and as yet no Opens House booking, everything is fine.

Casting will be on Monday, March 21. It is hoped that the show will play to wildly enthusiastic audiences during the (we hope) second week of May. A cast of thousands as usual will be required of which it is hoped you will be one. This is your chance to get into the Big Time.

If you can sing, dance or act (or if you can't sing, dance or act) we can use you. Also required are innumerable enthusiastic bods to help with costumes, scenery, advertising, ticket sales, orchestra properties and general administration. .

Rehearsals will be held on Monday, Tuesday (or Wednesday) and Thursday evenings, and on Sunday from 2 p.m.

If you want to be in the event of the University year, be at the Little Theatre on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m.

Rehearsals will begin on Sunday, March 27, at the latest.

If you can't make it, contact Ian Rich, c/- Men's Common Room or c/-Exec room.

The new Science block on the site above the Gymnasium, on which work will start shortly, will be a steel-framed concrete building of she floors and a basement Planning of this building began before 1939: the preparation of the detailed plans has correctly been called a "lengthy business."

The building will house the departments of chemistry, geology and geography. It will ease the acute accommodation problem at VUC—the present student roll is 2200 and is estimated at 2600 by 1957—and will be completely up-to-date: the architects, Messrs. Gray Young, Morton and Calder, sent Mr. Young to England in 1951 to inspect similar buildings, and he had discussions with architects and specialists in laboratory design.

In addition to the three departments mentioned above, the new building will have provision for non-science classes and rooms for council, board and committee meetings, as well as a lecture theatre which will be of value for public lectures and similar public occasions.